Yes, we’re still talking about the Sex and the City movie.
We love to try and spot the fashion items in any movie we see, but this is taken to a whole new level when you see a movie like Sex and the City, where every shot has something to check out.
Carrie Bradshaw chose a Mikimoto opera-length cultured pearl necklace to replace her signature nameplate necklace in the movie. The 8.0-8.5mm Akoya cultured pearl necklace, 32-inches long, with Mikimoto’s signature clasp in 18K gold retails for US$11,900. The beautiful strand is featured throughout the film as Carrie’s “no outfit is complete without it” accessory.
The Landmark Mandarin Oriental has a special package for all you Alicia Keys fans who want to keep the songstress’ music near them for a weekend.
The Alicia Keys ‘As I Am’ Hong Kong package will set you back HK$7488 and for that you get:
- 2 tickets to the Alicia Keys concert on July 29th at the AsiaWord-Arena
- 2 nights accomodation
- Daily breakfast for 2
- A copy of her CD “As I Am”
Too rich for your blood? Well, if you frequent Amber, MO Bar or The Oriental Spa and spend a combined HK$5,000 from now till July 25th, you can get a set of 2 complimentary tickets to the concert, too. Reservation hotline and more information here.
If the streets seemed unusually devoid of women, that’s because they were likely lining up for “Sex,” the big-screen adaptation of the popular television series about the romantic and fashion dilemmas confronted by four Manhattanites.
Coming to theaters four years after they ended their six-season run on HBO, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her gal pals unleashed a frenzy among the show’s fans, who organized large gatherings to catch up with their heroines’ exploits.
Warner Bros. said women comprised 85 percent of the audience on Friday night.
“Women are great planners and they definitely wanted a girls’ night out,” said Dan Fellman, president of distribution at Warner Bros. He added that some women bought out an entire theater in Los Angeles’ Century City district for all their friends.
But anecdotal evidence indicated that Saturday’s screenings played more like date movies, with patient husbands and boyfriends perhaps making up a quarter of the crowd, he said.
And with the success of the movie, it didn’t take HBO long to announce a NEW series starring Kim Cattrall. Not based on her Samantha Jones character, but it sounds similar enough to attract a few SATC fans over. It’s called Sensitive Skin based on a UK-created series. Read more here.
On a musical note, and if you can’t wait till Thursday, HMV is having a special promotion for the soundtrack, if you purchase it now for HK$99 you can get 4 postcards from the movie. The track list is as follows:
Labels Or Love - Fergie
All Dressed In Love - Jennifer Hudson
Mercy - Duffy
The Look Of Love [Madison Park VS Lenny B Remix] - Nina Simone
New York Girls - Morningwood
All This Beauty - The Weepies
I Like The Way - Kaskade
It’s Amazing - Jem
How Deep Is Your Love - The Bird & The Bee
The Heart Of The Matter - India.Arie
Auld Lang Syne - Mairi Campbell & Dave Francis
Kissing - Bliss
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Al Green featuring Joss Stone
Walk This Way - Run D.M.C. featuring Steve Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith
Sex And The City Movie Theme - Pfeifer Broz. Orchestra
Also don’t forget that you can win tickets to see an exclusive VIP screening of Sex and the City in Hong Kong by entering our contest in conjunction with Carat Emporium.
Tickets for the new Alicia Keys concert on July 29th show at the Asia World Expo are on sale now. Seats are $380/$680/$980 and you can get them here at HKTicketing.
This summer, multi-platinum, nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys will be back in Hong Kong to give her live concert here. Alicia Keys As I Am Hong Kong 2008 will be held at the AsiaWorld-Arena on Tuesday, 29 July 2008.
Expect a truly fascinating, flawless performance where Alicia’s powerful voice, and amazing band, takes the audience through the songs from new album As I Am as well as favourite tunes and monster hits from the previous releases, such as “Fallinâ€, “If I Ain’t Got Youâ€, “You Don’t Know My Name†“Diary†“A Woman’s Worthâ€.
Watch her performance of “No One” live on Japan TV:
Unbelievable live rock musical brings it to Wan Chai.
We set this up for you in back in December, and now it’s finally here in Hong Kong and we’ll plainly state: We Will Rock You was worth waiting for.
The west-end musical based on music by Queen and Ben Elton is a nearly 3-hour top-to-bottom thrill ride of music, dancing, costumes, set pieces that is worth every penny of the ticket price.
Its the year 2350 and rock music has been banned, a young kid who has “dreams” of rock songs is the world’s only salvation. In between the “story,” we are treated to great performances of Queen songs like Another One Bites the Dust, We are the Champions, a tease of Flash Gordon and one other song we forget the name of, but we think we heard it before in the movie Wayne’s World ;-)
Hugely enjoyable, if you can still get good seats we suggest in the A section in the middle, further away but a great view of the entire stage. And don’t worry, the whole audience got into the performance with dancing and hand clapping as this show can get even the most anti-musical person on their feet and snapping their fingers.
We Will Rock You plays in Hong Kong until June 22 so you still have plenty of time to catch one of the shows which is great for music fans, Queen fans (like ourselves) as well as for those people who aren’t into musical theatre. A shortcut in through the magic of Freddie Mercury is all anyone needs. Tickets are here at HKTicketing.com.
The We Will Rock Youthe site is here and below we found an MTV interview clip of male lead MiG Ayesa from backstage of the show:
As well as a montage of performances from the TV show Rock Star INXS:
Even though American Idol Season 7 is running right now in Hong Kong on Star World, alebit a few episodes behind its airdates in the US, we’re going to spoil the last few episodes for you because its all over the web now and will be in all Hong Kong newspapers in the morning.
We want to preface this with the fact that we have never watched this show before, but something about a few of the contestants (like Michael Johns) roped us in to watch it, and the amazing vocal talents in what we wrote-off as a cheesy singing contest became must view television for the Butterboom team.
And so without further ado, the winner of American Idol Season 7 is….
Jewelry innovator David Yurman announced the opening of the first international boutique in Hong Kong at the prestigious IFC mall.
Yurman was here to present the latest collection with international supermodel Du Juan. Popular Hong Kong models like Ana R, Lisa S, Mikki Yao, Gaile Lai, Kathy Chow, and Jennifer Tse Ting Ting were also there to model the jewelry.
Obviously Tommy Hilfiger knows who is buying his clothes. The apparel titan (who through a licensing deal with Hong Kong’s Dickson Concepts operates over 108 Hilfiger outlets in Hong Kong and around Asia - 56 of them in China alone) has launched their own video website at TommyTV.com.
It just launched last week and doesn’t feature Hilfiger ads or fashion shows but purely very rare live concert footage from bands like Wyclef Jean, Good Charlotte, INXS (Micheal Hutchence era performances no less), John Legend, Incubus, DJ Krush and many more - in a very slick flash, streaming interface, all free and we’re sure it will grow.
